For clarity I'm using an ubuntu derivative called LuninuX OS http://luninuxos.com/ its pretty sweet ! This Is what I had to do to get ixconn working on my installation , maybe this will help someone facing similar problems.by now I'm assuming you've fully installed ixconn and whatnot.
First of all canonical removed Users and Groups which would enable you to change the groups the current user is in, you could use usermod but eeehh! this can be fixed by installing gnome system tools , in terminal

,after which you check use modem and anything that has modem in it, that is the first problem solved, the second problem I faced is that ixconn would "connect" but it would do nada! only pinging 8.8.8.8 would work, I fixed this by doing